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Blessed Are The Poor

The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

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Beggar in the Spirit

In the Greek, it's actually beggar. And so not just because we could just like, okay, I'm poor, I don't have it, but it's a beggar. So to be poor in spirit is actively begging the Lord for that gap that we have identified and we're trying to fill in with something that's just not really satisfying. The Lord knows the desires of our hearts, he knows the things that we truly desire. He desires those things once again, those gaps in which that we just can't fill in. But he says, just give me your heart. Like I'm begging for it. All right. Father Philippe does bow down to the word "

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